Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1887-03-08

may or may not happen, and the time
of which cannot be surmised, there is
no a to believe that a fatal
issue will occur to-day. Signed,
w. S. SEARLEs.
8 P. M.-There is no perceptible
change in Beecher's condition.
The Iron Mountain Railroad Ae-
cident.
ST.. LOUIS, March THE railroad
accident on the Iron Mountain rail-
road, neal Desoto, Mo-, which was
very briefly referred to late last night,
while not being at all unusual in re-
gard to fatal casualties, proves to have
been quite remarkable in respect to.
several circumstances which attended
it. 1t occurred at Victoria, 50 miles
south Of here a little after 10 O'Clock,
and was occasioned by the giving way,
| under the train, OF the trestle which
crossed Joachim Greek at that point.
The train was the Texas Express. and
consisted of a baggage, express and
mail cars, smoker, two passenger
coaches, and four sleepers, carrying
about 100 passengers. A heavy rain
had fallen all day, and the creek was
much swollen. At Henutite, the
first station this side OF the t~restle, the
engineer received orders to run eau
~tiously, as the rain had been heavy
and the creek was out its banks.
Engineer Kelly says he ran slowly
beyond that point, and both he and
his fireman. VIM. Hatch, watched
the track very carefully. As he APP
preached the trestle Kelly observed
that the track was entirely straight
and level, showing nothing wrong,
he went on without the slightest hest
tation, but when his engine reached
about the middle trestle he felt the
whole structure sinking beneath him.
In an instant he opened the valve
operating the air brakes to its full
width, and brought the train to SO
quick a stop that the front end of one
of the n vas crushed in by the sud-
den shock. This saved the coaches,
but the baggage, mail, express and
smoking car went into the raging
torrent below, carrying with them all
the men on board. Engineer Kelly
and fireman Hatch went down with
the engine, and were submerged in the
food. Kelly, in his struggles to free
himself, found that one of his feet was
held fast, but at the same instant, and
just IS he realized that he must drown
the engine turned over, his foot was
released. and he came to the surface,
and seizing a passing log he chung to it
desperately, and was swept down the
torrent and lodged against a tree $50
yards below, with scarcely strength
enough to move He clasped his legs
and arms around the limb Of a tree,
became unconscious, and was not
restored until two or three hours
after, when he found himself kindly
cared for in a house in Victoria,
His face and head were seriously
cut, two of his toes cut from
one of his feet, and he is badly
bruised in various parts of his body.
He will recover. Fireman Hatch was
carried about 500 yards down the
stream, lodged in a mass of brush or
the drift, and was rescued o after
the food subsidized. The postal cal
was swept away some distance, and
as the water rushed through it, from
end to end, the mail was literally
washed out, and it is now scattered
over miles of territory or embedded il
the mud Of the creek.
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changed.
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, March THE
situation between the officers and the
striking brakemen on the New York
Pennsylvania & Ohio railroad is prac
tically unchanged. The excitement il
increased somewhat by the conduc
tors and brakemen in the employ o
the Pennsylvania Company striking
The demand for an advance of wages
two months ago, and the men receiv.
ing no answer, decided the fall out
this morning. The men are quiet and
orderly, and manifest a determination
to secure an advance or not return tc
work. The brakemen on the Pitts.
burg, Cleveland Il Toledo road here
have stated that one-third of the
brakemen will be put on, and if it is
not conceded, they assert they will
strike IN Thursday OF this week. The
industrial establishments are crippled
for stock, and a general shut down is
imperative unless traffic is resumed.
Death Of Mrs. Senator Beck.
WASHINGTON, March Mrs. Jane
Washington Thornton Beck, wife o.
Senator Beck of Kentucky, died at her
residence in this city this evening Of
Inflammation of the bowels. Mrs.
Beck had been feeling as well as
usual this Winter, and her first symp-
toms of illness were the result of a cold
contracted while out riding in an open
carriage on Friday. Nothing serious
was apprehended until this morning,
when Drs. Wales and Buzy, the ply
sicians in attendance, informed the
family that they could give no hope of
her recovery. Senator Beck and Mrs.
Goodle, Mrs. Beck's daughter, were at
her bedside in her last moments. Her